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$3.00 SCI/275 Week 3 Checkpoint: Succession and Natural Selection CheckPoint

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Succession and Natural Selection CheckPoint
· Resources: Ch. 6 of Visualizing Environmental Science and Ch. 6 Succession animation
· Due Date: Day 5 [Individual forum]
· View the Ch. 6 Succession animation located under the Week Three Materials section of
your aXcess page.
· Post a total of 200 to 300 words in response to the following items:
o View the succession of the ecosystem in the Succession animation. Is it primary or
secondary succession? Explain your answer.
o Respond to question 9 under the Critical and Creative Thinking Questions in Chapter
6 of the text. Review Ch. 6 on natural selection to help you with your response. If you
need additional help with your hypothesis, refer to the following article to see an
explanation of how evolution could have occurred in a population of mussels:
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/060901_mussels

 
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Preview: ... vegetation. Additionally, there was already soil present before the disturbance took place.

Although most salamanders have four legs, the aquatic salamander shown below resembles an eel. It lacks hind limbs and has very tiny forelimbs. Propose a hypothesis to explain how limbless salamanders evolved according to Darwin's theory of natural selection.

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Preview: ... in species composition that takes place after some disturbance destroys the existing vegetation. In the Succession animation, the beavers created a pond that overtime destroyed the existing environment of fertile forests of trees and plants. Unlike primary succession, secondary succession develops in environments where soil exists. In the Succession animation, it is evident that beavers helped in the disintegration of the environment by ...

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Preview: ... er has no hind limbs and has only small limbs in the front of its body, then the salamander has adapted to his climate. Many animals over time either grow more hair for cold climates or some animals may have clear bodies for very dark climates. These salamanders must be around water regions or very smoo ...

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